Proxima And Alpha Centauri
by Mark Garlick/science Photo Library
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Proxima And Alpha Centauri
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Mark Garlick/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Proxima and Alpha Centauri, illustration. Proxima is the nearest star to the Sun. It is a dim red dwarf, smaller than our Sun and many thousands of times brighter. To the right you can also make out Alpha Centauri, which is a binary star with two Sun-like components. The Alpha Centauri pair orbit each other quite closely, while Proxima orbits this pair much further out, forming a triple star system.
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November 8th, 2019
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